ISLAM & RATIONALITY
Islam secures consistency and rationality of belief through its logicality
and rationality. Islam is embraced strongly by its followers. Islam keeps
the Muslim away from ideological confusion, because it has no illogical
or irrational principles are consistent with one another.
Clear concept of Allah
Islam does not cause confusion to the believer concerning Allah. Allah
is one in Islam. Allah has no son or father. Allah has no parallel or equal.
According to Islam Jesus is not the son of Allah. Jesus is Allah's apostle.
So is Moses. So is Muhammed (Peace be Upon Them.) So are all Prophets and
Apostles. Allah has no son or sons.
To believe that God is unique, and vastly superior to his creation,
and yet has a son is inconsistent. This lowers God to human carnal level.
In today's Christianity, it is said that God had his son killed in order
to save humanity. With all respect to our Christian friends, it is difficult
to accept this, because it is against the justice and Might of God. Why
should God kill to save? It is unfair to kill an innocent person to save
others. In addition, Allah does not need to kill anyone to save others.
Allah can save without killing. Further, it is difficult to see the relationship
between killing and saving. It is difficult to convince a person of how,
if Allah kills his son, other men are saved. Further, it is difficult to
convinced people that Allah killed his only son, when he should protect
him.
Allah has no son
In Islam, this issue is clear, logical, and rational. In Islam, Allah
is one. Allah has no son. Allah does not kill. A person is not saved by
God's killing another person. In Islam, you saved or doomed by yourself
and your deeds. In Islam, Allah shows us the right path and the wrong path
through the Holy Quran; our responsibility is to choose either path; each
one of us is saved or doomed according to his choice and, consequently,
according to his deeds.
Allah is one
Islam does not have the concept of Trinity or the concept of "the three
in one". It is very difficult for the mind to accept or understand how
one being can be Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit simultaneously. Futhermore,
Allah has no son and does not need sons, because Allah is the owner of
everything and the Creator of all beings.
Jesus did not say he was Allah. Jesus said, "I do nothing of myself"
This would indicate that the miracles of Jesus are given to him by Allah,
like all Apostles before and after. He also said, "I am not yet ascended
to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father and your Father, and to my God and your God"
This means that Jesus refers to God as a Father metaphorically, because
he says that God is his Father and their Father. If Jesus is Allah how
did Allah kill him or have him killed? According to Islam, Jesus is a man,
an exemplary man, a holy man, an apostle chosen by God to be a model for
the people he was sent to.
No mediation between man and Allah
In Islam, there is no mediation between Allah and Men. You do not need
to go to a priest, you confess or repent to him. In
Islam, every Muslim has a direct contant with Allah, no matter how weak,
poor, or ignorant he is. In Islam,
Allah is the God of all. Every Muslim decides by himself
how near or how far he wants to be from God, depending on his free will
and deeds. In Islam, there are no mediators between Man and Allah.
No clergy
In Islam, there are no men of religion, as in some other beliefs. In
Islam, every Muslim is responsible for his own belief and for Islam in
general. In Islam, there are scholars of religion, but there is no class
of clergymen.
No celibacy
In Islam, there is no celibacy, because celibacy is against human nature.
Islam urges the Muslim to get married as soon as he can, because it is
difficult for normal people to be religious and unmarried at the same time.
Islam, as a rule organizes human nature, but never destroys it goes against
it.
Body-soul balance
Islam establishes a wonderful harmony between and demands of the soul
and the demands of the body. The religion that considers celibacy as necessary
for purity goes against human nature and theoretically puts an end to the
human race. Prophet Muhammad,(Peace Be Upon Him) says, "Your God has rights
over you. Your body has rights over you. Your soul has rights over you.
Give each his due rights".
A complete code of life
Islam is a religion, but not in the western meaning of religion. The
western connotation of the term "religion" is something between the believer
and God. Islam is a religion organizes all aspects of life on both the
individual and national levels. Islam organizes your relations with God,
with yourself, with your children, with your relatives, with your neighbour,
with your guest, and with other brethren. Islam clearly establishes your
duties and rights in all those relationships. Islam establishes a clear
system of worship, civil rights, laws of marriage and divorce, laws of
inheritance, code of behaviour, what not to drink, what to wear, and what
not to wear, how to worship God, how to govern, the laws of war and peace,
when to go to war, when to make peace, the law of economics, and the laws
of buying and selling.
Islam is a complete code of life. Islam is not for mosque only. Islam
is for life, daily life. Islam is a guide to life in all its aspects: socially,
economically, and politically. Islam is complete constitution. Thus Islam
keeps the Muslim away from cofusion, because Islam is logical and rational.
Allah is one. Allah is one Allah has no sons. Allah is not trinity. Allah
does not kill to save. No mediation is required between Allah and man.
Islam organizes human nature, but does not go agaist it. There is not a
class of clergy of clergy in Islam; nor is there clibacy. Islam is complete
code of human life. |